Vietnam, Second Republic. A Military Merit Medal Hold He was stuck off strength

He was stuck off strength to Canada on April 29

in POW camp 23 in Monteith

the backside of leather sweatband is marked "81" and "8

Annie Findlay Dunn of Heaton

Vietnam, Second Republic. A Military Merit Medal Hold He was stuck off strengthQun Cng Bi Tinh. Instituted in 1950. In bronze gilt, measuring 35. 7 mm (w) x 60 mm (h) inclusive of its palm leaf and crossed swords suspension, green oxidation evident on both sides, original ribbon, near extremely fine. Footnote: This decoration was the South Vietnamese equivalent of the French Medaille Militaire. It is a circular gold coloured medal, the obverse inscribed "TO QUOC TRI AN" (The Gratitude of the Fatherland) in the central disc, with